Sunday, July 20, 2008

These cookies were a happy accident actually. I have this standard peanut butter chocolate chip cookie recipe and I wanted to branch out and try something new. I had a jar of almond butter in the fridge and thought it ought to make a nice substitution but instead accidentally grabbed my jar of tahini paste instead. Oops!

I discovered the error before they went into the oven so I thought I'd go double or nothing by pressing the cookies into some roasted sesame seeds before I baked them and you know what? They were darn tasty!

The cookies were still nice and sweet but they also had the nutty sesame flavor that goes really well with the chocolate--not bad at all.

Cream the sugars, butter, shortening and tahini paste then add the eggs one at a time. Add the vanilla extract and mix well. Add the flour, soda and salt and mix until the dough sticks together Then add the chocolate chips, mixing until evenly distributed throughout the dough.

Roll a heaping tablespoon of dough into a ball and flatten it slightly. Dip it into the toasted sesame seeds and bake on an ungreased cookie sheet at 350 for 10-12 minutes or until slightly browned.

Oh, I'm trying this. We always have tahini because I make a darned tasty hummus myself, but tahini cookies are definitely something to check out! We buy sesame seeds and such at the bulk coop store in Lexington.

I love it when a mistakes births a new recipe!! Or when I just dump everything in the fridge in order to make some linguini stretch far enough to feed the unexpected guests that arrived (Last Thurs). Such fun!!!